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Issue: Speed Comics #3 Public Domain
Publication Date: December 1939
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Issues: #3 of 11 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagBrookwood
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Brookwood Publishing Company Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 13 (10 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Maurice Rosenfield
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was on-going series
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Genres: superhero
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Charles Gibson [Shock]; Jim Worth (Intro)
First Line: In a European capital a scene of parting takes place... 'No, JIm, I'm sorry. I can't marry you.'
Synopsis: Shock joins the Foreign Legion to track down Jim Worth, son of a prominent American businessman who joined to forget girl who jilted him.
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Shock Gibson Volunteers

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Writer(s): editors
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Disclose Notes: Send in the coupon and join the club
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Genres: adventure
First Line: Our three friends are stranded at an inland village in South Africa...
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Genres: adventure
First Line: At a Hollywood party... 'Nice party, isn't it Ted?' 'Yes, but look, our hostess seems excited!'
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An Escape From Headhunters

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Writer(s): Charles Miller
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Writer(s): Dick Briefer [as Remington Brant]
Penciller(s): Dick Briefer
Inker(s): Dick Briefer
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Character(s): Biff Bannon
First Line: Well, well -- the Navy's come to give me a headache my last hours on this island!
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Genres: adventure
First Line: In a blazing car ferry, a human rat is trapped!
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Writer(s): ? [as Gregory Torey] (credited)
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Character(s): Landor (villain); Anthony Torrence (hero); Marcia (his beautiful fiancée)
First Line: Locked in his vast laboratory, Landor, brilliant mad scientist, plots the destruction...
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Disclose Notes: rip-off of PHANTOM OF THE OPERA unmasking scene
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Genres: western
First Line: Tex foils a band of desperate cattle thieves.
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Air Speed

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Penciller(s): "Ace" Shaw (signed)
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Genres: non-fiction
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Writer(s): ? [as Carl Larson] (credited)
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Genres: adventure
First Line: Modern pirates still roam the North Atlantic, and though they no longer fly...
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Every Month in Speed Comics

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Disclose Notes: Inside-back cover house ad for Speed, showing all the main characters

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